Theory of adsorption is developed by Irving Langmuir to describe the dependence of the surface coverage of an adsorbed gas on the pressure of the gas above the surface at a fixed temperature. The Langmuir Isotherm Whenever a gas is in contact with a solid there will be an equilibrium established between the molecules in the gas phase and the corresponding adsorbed species (molecules or atoms) which are bound to the surface of the solid.
Langmuir made significant advances in the fields of physics and chemistry (see links below) and was in 1932 awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in surface chemistry.
This timeline entry suggestion courtesy of
Conor Whitehouse,
SOMS Centre, University of Leeds.
